Monthly Movie Night, hosted by Paula H.

New Show Time 6:30PM at UUCVH.

Admission FREE.

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February  9, 2012

Wee Geordie

1955 NR 93 minutes

Hoping to win Jean (Norah Gorsen), the girl of his dreams, wee Scottish lad Geordie (Bill Travers) undertakes a bodybuilding regimen that packs on the muscles, wins the lass and lands him a spot on the British Olympic team preparing to compete in Australia. But when radio reports from Down Under mistakenly declare that gold medal-winning Geordie has a new love, he must find a way to win Jean's heart all over again. Frank Launder directs.

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March 1, 2012

Cabin in the Sky 

1943 NR 98 minutes

Vincente Minnelli's directorial debut stars Eddie "Rochester" Anderson as Little Joe Jackson, a man torn between his devoted wife (Ethel Waters) and a sexy seductress (Lena Horne). When Joe is seriously injured in a barroom brawl, the General of Heaven (Kenneth Spencer) and Lucifer Jr. (Rex Ingram) engage in an epic battle for his soul. This all-black film based on the hit Broadway musical received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song.

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April 12, 2012

Journey of Man 

2002 NR 120 minutes

The origins of humankind are put under the microscope of this riveting PBS documentary film in which geneticists, historians, anthropologists and other theorists try to trace the beginnings of the human race. Could the seed, in fact, have begun with a man in Africa who roamed the Earth tens of thousands of years ago? Or have scientists merely found yet another descendant of a prehistoric predecessor?

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May 10, 2012

How to Murder Your Wife 

1965 NR 118 minutes

After spontaneously wedding a beauty (Virna Lisi) he'd just met, a cartoonist (Jack Lemmon) fantasizes about getting out of the hasty marriage by plotting his wife's murder in his sketchbook. But will life imitate art when she vanishes and the police show up on his doorstep? A product of a more chauvinistic era, this silly, less-than-politically-correct comedy is elevated by Lemmon's brilliant comic timing and Italian bombshell Lisi's considerable assets.

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June 14, 2012 (date to be confirmed)

The Secret Life of Bees 

2008 PG-13 109 minutes

Haunted by her mother's death, 14-year-old Lily Owens (Dakota Fanning) escapes her dreary life on her father's farm and heads to Tiburon, S.C., with friend and caregiver Rosaleen Daise (Jennifer Hudson), spawning a life-changing journey of self-discovery. Set amid the hotbed of racial tensions in the 1960s South, writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood's touching drama is based on Sue Monk Kidd's best-selling novel of the same name.

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July, 2012 (date to be confirmed)

The Long, Long Trailer

1954 NR 96 minutes

"I Love Lucy" co-stars and real-life husband-and-wife team Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz star in this hilarious adaptation of Clinton Twiss's novel, following the high jinks of a newlywed couple who spend their honeymoon in a trailer. After making big plans to Colorado in their lemon-yellow motor home, it doesn't take long for Nicky (Arnaz) and Tacy (Ball) to realize that they'll be lucky if they make it to their final destination in one piece.

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August, 2012 (date to be confirmed)

Lost Horizon 

1937 NR 134 minutes

In Frank Capra's classic based on the James Hilton novel, plane-crash survivors are led through the Himalayas to Shangri-La, a village without hate or crime where no one ages. Robert Conway (Ronald Coleman) is chosen to succeed Shangri-La's High Lama and falls for Sondra (Jane Wyatt), but his brother convinces him to leave on an ill-fated trek. When Conway ends up in England with amnesia, will he manage to go back and fulfill his destiny?

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September, 2012 (date to be confirmed)

As Seen Through These Eyes 

2008 NR 70 minutes

Renowned poet Maya Angelou narrates this harrowing documentary from Hilary Helstein that explores the horrors of the holocaust through the perspective of the artists and musicians who lived under the rule of the Third Reich. Though Hitler and the Nazis worked diligently to suppress any artistic expression within the camps and ghettos, many of their captives refused to be silenced, using their creativity to combat the oppression they endured.

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October, 2012 (date to be confirmed)

Death Becomes Her 

1992 PG-13 103 minutes

Goldie Hawn and Meryl Streep run wild in this black comedy that mixes rapier wit with cutting-edge special effects. Insufferably vain, Hawn and Streep discover the secret of eternal youth -- and find that it has a few unadvertised drawbacks. The object of their affection is a nerdy plastic surgeon (Bruce Willis), but when the ladies' bodies start to go -- literally -- he might not be able to help them out. Robert Zemeckis directs

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November, 2012… (Date to be confirmed).

Keeping Mum 

2005 R103 minutes

When housekeeper Grace Hawkins (Maggie Smith) arrives at the Goodfellow vicarage, she finds a reverend (Rowan Atkinson) too busy for sex, a bored wife (Kristin Scott Thomas) who's bedding her golf instructor (Patrick Swayze), a promiscuous teenage daughter and a bullied son. Little does the family know that their new "Mary Poppins" has a few tricks -- and secrets -- up her treacherous sleeve. Niall Johnson directs this wickedly black comedy.